Posted on 03/10/2018 8:05:32 AM PST by jeannineinsd
Thousands of pounds of human waste, close to 14,000 hypodermic needles cleaned out from Santa Ana River homeless encampments
Orange County Public Works released eye-popping figures Thursday, March 8, on the total amount of debris, needles and hazardous waste removed when crews cleaned up the area along the Santa Ana River Trail once populated by the encampments of homeless people.
Heres what was collected between Jan. 22 and March 3 from a more than two-mile stretch of bike trail roughly from I-5 in Orange to Ball Road in Anaheim, according to OC Public Works spokesman Shannon Widor:
404 tons of debris
13,950 needles (approximate number based on what disposal containers hold)
5,279 pounds of hazardous waste (human waste, propane, pesticides and other materials)
Before and after photographs published by the Register last week show stark differences at different spots along the trail, as does a video the county posted Feb. 28 on YouTube.
More than 700 people were living in the encampments when they were dismantled in late February. Most of those people are being housed temporarily in local motels while county outreach workers assess their need for services and housing.
The bike trail cleanup is the beginning of an environmental remediation effort that was expected to include the removal of 2 to 3 inches of soil in the project area and tree trimming. Planned improvements on the bike trail from Katella to Ball Road/Taft Avenue also could include sealing cracks and applying a slurry seal, Widor said.
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Ahha. Found it. Its called General Assistance.
General assistance may be offered as well. This includes rent and utility assistance for low income individuals and the working poor. Any money is paid directly to your landlord or utility company. Vouchers for basic needs may be offered too. Also look into Medi-Care, Food Stamps, Healthy Families, Medi-Cal, and other public aid.
All those free needles just thrown away like that. I’m surprised littering in that quantity is legal in California.
Glad you made the headlines, you anti-gun human-waste.
Hmmm... that's a new one on me. For 10 years I have served as an intake interviewer for a local non-profit Food Bank/etc. here in SC. Most of the folks I talk with are on some kind of assistance. But General Assistance? Never came across that one.
Interesting.
They get bonuses based on how many people they can sign up, I think. I used to not understand how EBT card people could buy grocery store items I couldn’t afford until I got signed up, ever so briefly.
Hmmm... that's a new one on me. For 10 years I have served as an intake interviewer for a local non-profit Food Bank/etc. here in SC. Most of the folks I talk with are on some kind of assistance. But General Assistance? Never came across that one.
Interesting.
California has a welfare program for everyone.....except the ones paying for it.
For on brief moment, California faces its future.
There’s much more of this ahead.
I would like to point out that Orange County did a very nice job cleaning this mess up. It stretched through many cities, since the river bed forms a natural boundary. MANY jurisdictions were involved, coordinating the effort was a Herculean task, and various do gooders and rights groups fought every step of the way in court, against this action. At the end of the line stood a Federal judge who issued injunctions against most common sense responses, to this disaster. Certainly this latest round of action will serve as no panacea but compared the the estimated 50,000 plus homeless up the freeway in LA, and who knows how many people in SF, this represents a nice return to civilized standards. Thank you.
Two questions:
Besides a motel where did al lthe homeless go to?
Who is the poor guy who had to count the needles?
I agree Orange County did a good job to get this area cleaned up.
Well, I do know they have created a lot of shelters, this past year. Public works did the yeoman task of cleaning up the area so presumably they did the counting. Thanks.
Thanks for posting !
I fled CA (Santa Cruz lol) for Denton TX about 7 years ago.
I remain quite pleased with my desicion.
I’m proud to call myself a Texan, transplant or not.
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